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Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Inspector Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders. Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (520 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Provides an in-depth account of the country's history from 1924-53, the period of Stalin's rule. Told in ten parts, this astonishing documentary provides the real-life pictures, the witnesses, the documents, and the footage, and gives a remarkable insight into what led to the death of sixty-five million Soviets during Stalin's reign of terror.
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 3
Language
English
Description
It's 1939. Russia teeters on the verge of war with Germany. It is also on the brink of bankruptcy. To preserve his regime, Stalin orders a search for the legendary missing gold of Tsar Nicholas II. For this task, he chooses Pekkala, the former investigator for the Tsar. To accomplish his mission, Pekkala will go undercover, returning to Siberia and the nightmare of his own past, where he was once a prisoner in the notorious Gulag known as Borodok...
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Series
Language
English
Description
November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviets had already lost millions of lives. That same month in Tehran, with the fate of the world in question, the 'Big Three,' Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin,...
8) Young Stalin
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 460 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
14) Snow wolf
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1997, Glenn Meade's first internationally bestselling thriller is back and better than ever, as it takes you on a riveting ride into the heart of a Cold War plot to assassinate Joseph Stalin.
It's 1953—the middle of the Cold War. Joseph Stalin is a major threat—with his deteriorating mental stability, reports that he's about to resume his horrifying purges, and the Soviet Union on the cusp of developing nuclear...
It's 1953—the middle of the Cold War. Joseph Stalin is a major threat—with his deteriorating mental stability, reports that he's about to resume his horrifying purges, and the Soviet Union on the cusp of developing nuclear...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (61 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shot on location in Georgia and Russia, the documentary examines how the bloodiest dictator in world history commanded the allegiance and adulation of the Soviet Union during his lifetime and how his influence lives on beyond the grave. It employs a wealth of archive material, eye witness accounts, reconstructions in original locations, and myriad examples of Stalin's artistic legacy in its scrutiny of the dictator's career and his cult, past and...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The German Army begins to shatter before the advancing Soviet forces in 1944. Two Russian soldiers burrow into the crypt of a German church, where, clutched in the hands of a priest's skeleton, they discover a priceless icon last seen in the grasp of Rasputin, the mad monk who mesmerized the Romanovs. When news of the discovery reaches Moscow, Stalin calls upon his most trusted investigator, Inspector Pekkala, to unravel the secret of the icon's past....
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